5.1 Concept and Purpose of Commission of Inquiry

The concept: the commission of inquiry = the AD HOC body (the government's-or-the legislature's creation) investigating the matters of public concern (the events, the patterns, the failures the ordinary machinery cannot handle (the systemic's-and-the mass's faces)); the legal anchor (Nepal): the Commission of Inquiry Act, 2026 B.S. (1969) (the commissions' statutory frame (the powers (the witness's summon, the document's production, the oath's craft); the report's duty (the government's submission))); the purposes (the exam's list): the FACT- finding (the truth's establishment (the disputed events' record)); the ACCOUNTABILITY's mapping (the responsibility's identification (the recommendation's faces)); the ACKNOWLEDGMENT (the victims' recognition (the suffering's official record (the dignity's craft))); the REFORM (the recommendations' prevention (the "never again" machinery)); the HEALING's face (the public's- and-the victims' catharsis (the testimony's space)); the inquiry's limits (the non-judicial craft (the findings ≠ the convictions (the criminal justice's separate standards)) + the follow-through's problem (the reports' shelving — the implementation's honest audit)); the commissions' victims' faces (the victim-centred inquiry craft (the statement's dignity (the participation's-and-the reparation's expectation)).